Congress

Appropriations The House Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee marked up its FY22 Department of Defense appropriations on June 30. This...

The annual defense policy bill is unlikely to make any Thanksgiving menus this year. With the Senate in recess this week and scheduled for just three...

This year’s defense budget, already overdue, cleared an important hurdle last month when a bill was introduced by the Senate Appropriations Committee...

Lawmakers from states with Guardsmen involved in space missions have begun the push for the creation of a Space National Guard as Congress prepares...

Congress has allowed the Pentagon to shift billions of dollars to pay for the deployment of National Guard troops to the southern border, the pandemic...

A group of Senate Democrats wants to establish a nonpartisan, independent commission to review the war in Afghanistan. They are co-sponsoring the...

Days into the new fiscal year, the Defense Department is working off last year’s budget thanks to a continuing resolution passed in lieu of regular...

Officials are bracing for a possible government shutdown this week after Senate Republicans blocked legislation that would have extended the current...

The House overwhelmingly approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act last week, boosting defense spending beyond what President Joe...

Disabled veterans and their survivors would see one of the largest increases in their compensation in over a decade under legislation approved by...

House lawmakers have begun considering the annual defense policy bill, with debates and votes on dozens of amendments likely stretching well into the...

President’s Budget President Biden released the FY22 President’s Budget on May 28th, 2021. The president’s budget requests $753.0 billion in total...